Mr. Robert Verner Phillips | Attorney

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South Carolina injury lawyer Robert V. Phillips focuses his practice on catastrophic car accidents, truck accidents and 18-wheeler collisions, cycling accident/injuries, medical malpractice, bad faith insurance litigation and 1983 Civil Rights/excessive force claims.  Robert has tried to verdict numerous cases in South Carolina and North Carolina, and in both State and Federal Courts.

Mr. Phillips has obtained numerous verdicts and settlements in excess of $1 Million in his areas of practice and is a member of the Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum.  He obtained one of the largest punitive verdicts in this part of the State in a medical malpractice case where Mr. Phillips discovered and proved the defendant had altered a patient’s medical records.  Mr. Phillips has also successfully tried a number of complex bicycle vs. automobile cases.  Mr. Phillips’ experience as a cyclist himself, gives him special insight into the intricacies of these difficult cases.  Several of Mr. Phillips’ trial verdicts have been reported on the front pages of Lawyer’s Weekly and picked up by the AP News Wire.

Due to his results in these areas of the law, Mr. Phillips is often asked to present on the topics of police excessive force and bad faith insurance claims at seminars in South Carolina and around the country.  Many lawyers from around the state and this part of the country associate Mr. Phillips to handle these cases for them.

In 2006, Robert was elected by his fellow lawyers to the Board of Governors for the South Carolina Association for Justice (SCAJ).   He currently serves on the Executive Committee for SCAJ.

Admission

Verified South Carolina

2000

Education

Clemson University

B.A. (Language & International Trade)

1994

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